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POLITICAL ROADS
i OVERNOR OLCOTT was fully jus
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tified in vetoing the road bills.
The legislature was playing
horse with the state highway
system. If it had been permitted to
continue to do so there would soon
be no organized highway plan.
Of the bills there were only two
which had the substance of a claim
for consideration, but they were' in
bad company. The two were those
which involved the road through
Sherman county and the road in Mal
heur county. The Sherman county
road is important for the reason that
it is more than a mere county road.
From a geographical and construc-
tam etanrfnnlnt If ia fhp natural rmit.A
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embraced in Crook and Lake counties.
In time to come It will be a main
road of travel between the Oolum
bft river highway and California.
The Malheur county .road", while
confined within the boundaries of the
county, has an intersUte' chvacter,
. - connecting with Idaho anaViSevada,
and Us development would no doubt
- be influential In bringing Into Oregon
a large traffic. The merit of these
two roads will be recognized In due
time.
As to the other roads, which were
to have been designated as state roads,
they are purely local and to have at
tached them to the state system would
have been the transference of a coun
ty obligation to the state.
- It was asserted by the proponents
Of the measures that there was no
intention to commit the state to an
Immediate construction of the roads.
yr This was but a pretext, an opening
wedge as it vere.
At the next session of the legisla
ture they would have been found ask
ing for an appropriation and for a
mandate compelling the highway com
mission to begin work Immediately on
a series of roads which begin no
where and end nowhere.
The extravagance, waste and un
substantial result of . such a method
of building is apparent in the experi
ence of other states and in all lines
of constructive effort.
If the highway commission is not
Interfered with and left to its own
responsibility to the public, it will be
found that It is a responsive, body. If
it is not it can be soon made so
; When It has completed the improve
ment of the system already planned,
a task which is going to tax to the
. limit the financial resources of the
state, other roads will be added in
accordance with their relative im-
- portance
To take away from the highway
commission the direction of road con
struction and to plrce it with the
legislature would lead to disaster and
" chaos. By his veto ,Governor Olcott
has saved a fundamental principle
- . and barred the highways to legisla
tive politics, and saved 'the state from
a carnival of political road building.
Oscar Menefee was a good man
and a good citizen. The maladies
that one after another attacked him
furiously, were like a strange fate
and out of the ordinary for a man
at his time of life and in his full
ness of strength. At 58, many years
ot usefulness were still before him
but the unusual train of ailments
laid him low. There are many who
will mourn with his bereaved family
" AT THE SODA FOUNTAIN
THERE were days when ice cream
odas, popcorn balls and pink
. lemonade were unknown. What
' in the world was done then to
revivify youth's and maturity's Jaded
appetites' for sweets? One would
Judge in the blase periods of this
; present time that the consuming of
a 'soda was primarily "the act of a
r hypnotized imagination. Pick up any
fountain card. Note the lurid reour-
rence : of : such , terms " as; "Dusky
Dream," "General Pershing's Victory,'
"Peach- or Reno," "Love's Awakening.'
Yet when ' the order? comes. Instead
of being the ensemble of romance
: with., Cleopatra stage settings, it; Is
merely. iOt cents ..--worth, of the. !d
fashioned ice cream, and . carbonated
water or dilute fruit juice, with 20
to 40 cents added to pay for the word
wizardy. Who's going to be auda
cious enough to repeat now, "What'
in a name
Recurrent cases of Spanish influ
enza are milder than last year. The
city's official quarantine of the dis
ease is to be rigid. These are the
reassuring attendants of the report
that half a dozen persons in Port
land seem to have the "flu." But
more hopeful than official, measures
or the softening of the epidemic's
virulency, important as these are.
is the new intelligence of public
sentiment. "Flu" is no longer a
jest. It has a -background of too
much tragedy. No sane person will
seek to defy quarantine or nullify
preventive measures. The sad re
sults of last year's carelessness are
too vividly remembered.
ITS GREAT GROWTH
W
ERE there no other reason, the
number of loans made to farm
ers proves the need for the
farm loan banks.
Up to December 31,-411,131 farmers
had borrowed of the banks. The
loans to them totaled more than
$296,000,000.
The Spokane bank led in the num
ber of loans with a total of 15,302
St Paul was next with 14,270 loans,
New Orleans was third with 13,618,
and Houston followed with 11,668.
St. Paul was first, Spokane second
and Omaha third in the amount of
money loaned with totals of nearly
$40,000,000 each. During the month of
December last new loans were made
to 4367 farmers with an aggregate of
$14,281,625. '
This growth of the system to a
volume of rural credits mounting to
nearly one third of a billion, occurred
during war times when every agri
cultural product was high and farm
ers more prosperous than at any time
in a generation. The system went
i$o operation in May, 1917, and the
extension of its business in less than
three years to such large proportions
Is the best evidence in the world of
the wisdom of the federal govern
ment in establishing the plan. If, in
stead of the war times, the inaugura
tion of the system had been amid
lean years for the farmers, the num
ber of the loans and their totals would
! been much larger,
f"-
TIfose who continue the propaganda
to undermine the farm loan structure
are committing a great wrong. They
are playing with fire, for" if they suc
ceed In breaking down the system
there will be a near uprising of farm
ers. iNo legislation in a generation
as been of such direct and immediate
benefit to agriculture.
It gave immediate relief to farmers
whose farms wer about to go on the
auction block to satisfy the mortgage.
It gave them long time loans at low
Interest rates with no bonuses paid
for renewal of loans, no fees every
few years for new abstracts of title,
new mortgages and the other costly
steps necessary in the renewals of
short time loans.
It set free the minds of farmers who
were discouraged with debt, and gave
them new hope in going forward with
plans for improving their land and
extending their production.
Best of all, it raised up a new bar
rier against the spread of farm ten
antry, that gnawing canker which
eats the heart out of agricultural en
terprise and saps the strength out
of the very foundations of the re
public. Tomorrow The Journal will print
parts of a special article from the
New York Times on the industrial
situation in the states of Oregon and
Washington. It is a description of
the situation in the two states as
seen by an Eastern writer during
a visit to the coast and it will ,be
of particular Interest in Portland be
cause of local names and the con
clusions arrived at.
LOMBARDI LTD.
A'
GLIMPSE at gentleness in human
life is caught in the charming
comedy now running at the
Heilig.
The kindly relation between em
ployer and employes when the dress
making establishment of Lombard!
Ltd. is about to go into bankruptcy
could be studied with profit by all
employers and employes In America.
The loyalty of the working personnel
and the sunny spirit of Lombard! is
a charming as well as a relieving
spirit in these days of Industrial
turbulence, controversy and feud.
It is no wonder that the play Is in
its third year and that it is shortly
to leave for a run in London. The
delightful humor of the life pictured
In the changing scenes in the produo-
tlonthe Inimitable impersonation of
the Italian character of Lombard!,
and the many effective sermonettes
in the outcome of the various situa
tions, make the play a representation
of drama that is worth while.
it is or Interest that the "Norah" in
the cast is an Oregon girl, a daugh
ter of George Watklns of Marshfield,
Mischief may be the occupation
of the idle, but it Is just as fre
qently the recreation of the indus
trious.
"DRIVES"
CITY ordinance requires all or
ganizations that intend solicita
tion of funds to secure a mu
hJclpal permit. .The city auditor
reports that all outstanding permits
expired on January 1. The city coun
cil committed to the heads of clvio
I and business . organizations tha ex.
aminatloa of applicants for solicita-
lion permits., . These ; men liave aC 'far i
recommended that the Armenian drive
he ; allotted the first two weeks of
February and the Pisgah home colony
the last week of the same month.
The public should take notice that
other campaigns which' may be under
way lack the status of official recog
nition. To solicit, without a permit
is to violate the law! of the city. Con
tributions should not be made until
evidence is produced by the solicitor
that the campaign is carried on under
authority.
The rule may seem irksome to or
ganizations that have been active in
me city so long trial nearly every one
knows and praises their good works!
But - the regulation is only in part
aimed at such bodies. It is as much
for their protection as for that of
over-solicited business men. The pur
pose Is to keep out of the field un
worthy and exploiting agencies. The
further purpose is to put the various
"drives" on such a schedule that they
will come in reasonable order.
Careful review of budgets and cam
paign .plans will lead to greater, care
In preparing the budget and proving
the essential character of each item
It might even lead to such coordina
tion of agencies rendering similar
service as to cause them to coord!
nate their appeals, reduce the costs
of campaigns and get greater results
with the money contributed-
There would even be a possibility
of advancing that millennial day when
our philanthropy will have for the
support of its kindly impulses a basis
of truly scientific administration.
It appears that under Chamber of
Commerce auspices a club for the
study of foreign trade has been
formed just at a time when foreign
trade is becoming to Portland a
practical business subject rather
than the theme of academic mus
ings. The fort of Portland will soon
send, to the Oriental field a trade
agent who should be able to report
on the opportunities of China, Japan
and Siberia. The United States con
sular service has diligent students
of trade conditions stationed in
nearly every considerable foreign ,
community and the existence of the
local trade club furnishes an op
portunity to prove their practical
worth to this port.
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BORROWING FROM PETER
T IS easier to borrow money than
to pay it back. Very probably this
thought was in the minds of the
thrifty pioneers- who framed our
constitution when they wrote section
10 of article ii, inhibiting counties
from creating indebtedness in excess
of $5000, except to suppress insurrec
tion or repel invasion. It may have
been proper and in the line of progress
when the people of the state set that
restriction aside, insofar as the con
struction of county roads is con
cerned, up to 6 per cent of the as
sessed valuation of the county. But
the relaxation ought to stop there. It
Is better for counties, as well as for
Individuals, to pay as they go, than
to pass the buck to future genera
tions and burden them with the pay
ment of transitory debts of the
present.
Representative Burdick, through
his house Jbint resolution seven, is
asking the people of the whole state
to permit Crook and Curry counties
to pass their present outstanding
warrant indebtedness on for future
generations to pay, by providing in
that proposed amendment to the con
stitution that these counties may issue
warrants up to 2 per cent of their
assessed valuation, and then fund them
by the issuance and sale of county
funding bonds.
It is bad precedent, and certatnly
bad constitutional law. We have been
amending the constitution pretty
freely up to now, but never before.
If recollection serves, has the request
been made taat the fundamental law
be changed- to give temporary finan
cial relief to one or, at the most, two
ocalities In the state. It is a propo
sal which, if ratified, would open We
door to all manner of patchwork and
makeshift amendments flhtfl the con
stitution would lose all form and
semblance of fundamental law.
Crook county, so it is understood,
has an outstanding indebtedness of
something like $100,000. It is crowd
ing the 6 per cent tax limitation all
the time for current operating expenses-
and its officials see no way
Of retiring the county debt under ex
isting: conditions unless by a special
direcTtax levy, submitted to and ap
proved by the voters of the county
as a whole. They fear that the elec
torate would not shoulder this addi
tional burden, so ttey propose,
through the Burdick amendment to
the constitution, to fix H so that the
voters may shove their debt off 10
or 20 years ino the future, and let
George make final payment.
It might be good business for banks
and bond buyers who want county
bonds to trade with, or in. But it ia
a plan which wrenches the constitu-.
Hon out of plumb, sets a bad exam
ple, works a hardship on the children
ofr today, and, incidentally, is, in work
ing effect, a partial repeal of the 6
per cent tax limitation amendment
Crook, Curry and other counties
that are in debt, have their remedy.
Spartan though it may be, through
direct taxation. They ought to be
good sports and swallow their medi
cine, at one gulp or in broken doses
as they might prefer, and . vote the
Burdick amendment down as baa
medicine for the constitution.
t .
Dr. Henry Euzzallo has a new
name for the walking delegate. It
ia - that of "economic counsellor."
The business agent will be compelled
to comport bimaelf with vast dig
nity and. discretion In order to live
up to ancto, a title. As Is the case
with most of the -utterances of the
president of the University of Wash-
ingtorv there is a logical conclusion
back of the appellation. The client
has his lawyer, the builder his en
gineer; why shouldn't the worker
have his "economic counsellor?"
For that matter, doesn't the em
ployer ; usually call in his lawyer
when the business agent appears?
ECHOES OF OLD
POWER FIGHT
By Carl Smith, Washington Staff Cor
respondent of The Journal.
Washington, Jan. 24. Echoes of the
old water-pojrer fight on the questions
of limitation of federal charges and per-
petual franchise have returned to the
senate dressexl in new garb, but with
the same contentions that have been
heard at every session for more than 10
years.
Amendments proposed by the senate
committee on commerce, and declared
by their proponents to be necessary to
"liberalize" .the house bill to the point
where Investors may be induced to risk
their money for large development on
the navigable streams and the public
lands of the country, were fought by oth
ers aa equivalent to the surrender of
valuable resources to special interests.
I .leading in support of the senate
amendments were Senator Jones of
Washington, chairman of the commit
tee ; Kelson of Minnesota, next in rank
on the committee, and because of Jones'
illness for most of the time in charge of
the bill, and Smoot of Utah, long
champion of the need of liberality in
dealing with water-power investments.
Branding the senate amendments as
full of danger and a surrender to the
water-power corporations. Senator Len
root of Wisconsin led the opposition to
them, supported by Norrls of Nebraska
and others who agreed that the public
Interest was not properly protected in
the senate plan.
The first test vote was on the com
mlttee amendment proposing to limit the
federal charge for plants on government
lands to not more than 25 cents per
horsepower developed; Lenroot con
tended that the bill should be left as
it came from the house, giving full power
to the federal commission to regulate
charges and thus to equalize the charges
between plants where under active com
petltive conditions only a nominal charge
for bare administrative expense would
be justified, and others where ponditions
may toUlly dlfIerent-
By a majority of one vote Lenroot's
view prevailed and the committee amend
ment was rejected, but the result was
subject to another vote under senate pro
cedure before final action on the bill.
The vote :
For 25-cent limitation Ball, Bank
head, Borah, Brandegee, Calder, Cham
berlain, Colt Edge, Hale, Harding,
Jones (N. M.), Lodge, McNary, Moses,
Nelson, New, Overman, Page, Phipps,
Sherman, Smoot, Spencer, Sterling,
Sutherland, Underwood, Wadsworth,
Warren, Watson 28.
Against Beckham, Capper. Dial, Gay,
Gerry, Gronna, Harris, Harrison, Hen
derson, Johnson (S. D.), Kendrlck, Ken
yon. Keyes, King. Klrby, Lenroot, Mc
Kellar. Norris, Nugent, Phelan, Rans
dell. Sheppard, Smith IGa.), Stanley,
Thomas, Trammell. Walsh (Mont),
Walsh (Mass.), Williams 29. .
Learning- Reform Where It's
to Be Learned .
How "Chris" Schuebel Came Up
Through Great Tribulations
Oregon City not only has an, interest
ing past but its present is full of prom
ise. There are those who say it is the
home of freaks and freak legislation,
but when the "freaks" have secured the
adoption of their "freak legislation,"
such as the initiative and referendum,
the direct primary, the corrupt practices
act and similar measures, you will find
that the calamity howlers eventually
claim credit for having secured the adop
tion of the measures.
One of the residents of Oregon City
who has done much to secure the pas
sage of laws to restore power to the
people is "Chris". Schuebel. To a re
porter for The Journal he recently said :
"You want to know all about me
sort of put me on the slide so as to study
me with a microscope? Is that the idea?
AH right. I haven't anything to hide.
I was born on September 12, 1868, In
Pennsylvania. You-can guess by my
name that my people were not Irish. My
father was a coal miner. I went to
work picking slate when I was eight and
one-half years old. I walked two and
one-half miles to the mine, winter and
summer, and had to be on hand when
the seven o'clock whistle blew. There
were two men over us, 'Reddy,' super
intendent Of the breaker boys, who used
his blacksnaka whip freely and effect
ively, and the breaker boss, who walked
back and forth on a raised platform.
Every time he saw one of us little chaps
loafing on the job he brought his whip
down across our shoulders so it left an
itching welt. I worked as breaker boy
till I was 13 years old.
"In 1876 there was a big strike in the
anthracite coal mines in Pennsylvania.
The mine owners imported thousands of
Slavs and Poles, who worked for less
than the American miners. My father
would not accept the lowered wages,
so in the spring of 1878 we moved to
Oregon. We moved on a farm In the
Beaver Creek district, nine miles south
east ot Oregon City. They call it
the Schuebel district now. I went to
the Beaver Creek school 26 days. When
I was 15 years old I had a chance to
go four weeks. A year later I put in
six weeks more. I got as far as Osgood's
Third Reader.
"In the spring of 18S7, when I was 20
years old, I borrowed 825 and started
out to eee the world. I got work in a
logging camp on the Columbia river.
Ten days after a big, husky foreman
called me down and In doing so re
flected on my ancestry. I picked up the
first thing handy, which happened to be
a rock, and went for him, and an hour
or so later I was hunting a new job. I
got it In Kinney's sawmill at Astoria.
When that job played out I worked as
assistant cook In a construction gang
on the Corvallis & Eastern railroad, run
nlng out of Albany to Detroit, up in
the foothills of the Cascades. Next
spring found me back at Astoria at
work as a freight ' sorter on the dock.
"Tbe longshoremen went on strike.
They quit work while they were unload
ing pig iron from a tramp steamer. The
superintendent put me with two other
freight sorters, at woik trucking the
tin. The longshoremen wer,e getting 50
cents an hour, and we only 20 cents. I
told the O. R. Sc. N. superintendent I
refused to be a strikebreaker. He said,
'You are fired.' The other freight sort
ers said. Then so are we. We won't
stay unless you take Chris back.' He
told us all to go to hell but we decided
to go to Aberdeen instead. We got
work there in a logging camp. I started
88 'swamper at 845 a month, then was
put on as "barker" and sniper'; at ISO
a month, then as a bucker' at $60 a
month and finally as a 'timber faUer
at $65 a month. : , i, . i
"On July l. 1890, I came back to Ore
gon'Clty and went to work at the woolen
mill at (U0 day "as repair man. After
: -" - ' "1 . --
SVs years J became assistant millwright
at i-7S a day. I stayed there till Feb
ruary, 1894, quitting because of a dif
ference of opinion. It was give up my
principles or my job. so I gave up my
job. I was out of work for three months.
I got in debt in spite of, myself. I
owed tt to the grocery store 'and I didn't
have tbe money to pay the bill. J. W.
Moffatt was construction boss for the
Willamette Pulp & Paper company.) I
had struck him for a job several times
but be always said, 'Nothing at pres
ent. One morning I took my lunch pall
and reported there for work. . They sup
posed I had been put on, 'so they gave
me a shovel and let me go to work at
widening the canaL I worked in water
knee deep at $1.50 a day and was grate
ful for the chance to work. nnaiiy i
was made assistant to a carpenter, and
because I made good I was put on as a
carpenter at $2.50 a day.
"How did I get to be a lawyer and
get Into politics? WeU, that is curious
and interesting hut altogether another
story."
Letters From the People
I Communications sent to The Journal for
DUbHcation in-thta department ibould be. written
en only one aide of the paper, mould not exeeea
SOO word in lencth, and must be siened by the
writer, wboae mail addma u lull uuui accoia
pany the contribution.
An Open Letter
Portland, Jan. 20. To Senators Mc
Nary and Chamberlain and Congress
men Sinnott and Hawley. ; Gentlemen
We, members of Mount Hood lodge No,
167, B. of L. F. & E., take this means
of showing our appreciation of your!
votes on the Each and Cummins bills.'
In these days when it seems popular to
take a fall out of organized labor it is
refreshing to find that both senators
and two of the congressmen of our state
refuse to weld the shackles ot involun
tary servitude on rrilroad labor.
Because we stand behind the Plumb
plan, the one plan offered that does not
mean an increase in freight rates with
the consequent Increase in the. .cost of
living, we are singled out and deprived
of the only right that marks free labor,
the right to strike, and turned over to
Wall Street to be exploited as it sees fit.
We hope you will vote to continue gov
ernment ownership for two years. If
it was necessary during the war why not
give it a fair trial In time of peace?
Why increase the cost of living further?
We thank" you for your votes on the
Esch and Cummins bills and sincerely
hope we c4h always depend on you to
protect the liberty so dear to the hearts
of free men.
Mount Hood Lodge No. 167.
B. of L. F. & E.
Let Representatives Represent
Portland, Jan. 16. Teythe Editor of
The Journal It is apparent to all free
thinking people who take an interest
in governmental affairs that the repre
sentatives elected by the voters who put
them in office do not serve the elec
torate. Then, how Is it possible to con
vince any rational person that we are
getting real democracy? Let's nominate
men to cary out the will of the ma
jority, and let's cut down on the numer
ous breed of pettifogging and selfish,
extortionate lawyers big interests and
political retainers.
Men, like organizations, have their rise
and fall. Much depends upon the qual
ity of their birth, proper surroundings
and moral training. All vegetable life
depends upon a right soil and favorable
external conditions for a healthy and
strong endurance. Ditto the social
structure.
To correct a typographical error in a
recent letter (last Thursday's Journal)
with title of "Economics of the Raids,"
the writer meant to say "get" instead
of "earn," namely, the workers only
"get" 18 per cent of what they produce.
Personalljrand ordinarily I do believe
in devils, but in this particular case if
the "printer's devil" will make amends
by making the above correction he will
stand pat with tbe workers and, per
chance, line up for true democracy.
HU MANUS.
Concerning the Judiciary
Portland, Jan. 15. To theyEdltor of
The Journal Why all this censure of
our august judiciary? Do they not
have to keep a weather eye out for the
future? Thy are lawyers. A lawyer
has to live. When rendering decisions
in it not the part of judicial wisdom to
favor those who employ lawyers? And
doesn't a judge run a chance of not be
ing elected? And don't the Sorensens
and Mielkes employ lawyers? And
might not gratitude for past services
render them favorable to ex-judges who
have done them a good turn? Fie, fie!
for trying to take the prospective bread
out of a lawyer's mouth.
W. F. DUNLAP.
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The Stale Song Contest
Dayton, Jari. 17. To the Editor of
The Journal Concerning the Btate song
contest Just what is It? Who is eligi
ble? What is the prize?
. i A READER.
ipooaor or tne contest to pro ride a itate ior for
Oreaon. All ire eligible. No priise is offered.
It is considered that the honor should well ri. .
the writer ot the winning eonz.
Indian Schools
Ontario. Jan. 20. Klndlv inform m.
to whom to apjrry for information con
cerning the n government schools of
Alaska.
An inquiry iddreased to "Commu'ioner of
Education. Wcthtnaton. D. C. should obtain
the information deatred.
Ohius' Sentence
Portland, Jan. 20. To the Editor of
The Journal In. yesterday's paper you
say, "Gatens Gives Ohius 50 Days." It
seems to me It would be nearer the
truth If you , said he remitted 70 days
and $250 fine (imposed by the police
Judge.) H.
Lions and Tamers
Independence, Jan. 22. To the Editor
of The Journal The Oregonian says :
"Sims is a regular old Hon in Daniels'
den." Some friend of Sims shquld In
form him that Daniels ia an old lion
tamer, and that Sims is only an English
lion anyway. SPECTATOR.
Olden Oregon
Early Explorers of the Oregon Coast,
1542 to 1788.
The first exploration along the Ore
gon coast was that of the 'Spanish ex
pedition under Cabrillo In 1542-3. Next
came Francis Drake, the Englishman,
who on his piratical cruise of the Span
ish seas in 1S77 touched the coast at 43
degrees north. Some claim he reached
48 degrees. He laid claim to the land
under the name of New Albion. Jn
1603 a branch of the Vlscalno Spanish
expedition reached 43 degrees. In 1774
Juan Perezlanded at a bay now called
Nootka sound. Other early Spanish
explorers were Heceta. Bodega and
Ayala. They were followed by Artega
anil Rmtwi in 1779. and in 17x8 th
viceroy of Mexico sent out Martinez?
and Haro, who spent three months in
northern waters.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
On some of the branches of Salt
river, Arisony, we uster go flshin" with
a shovel and pitchfork. A kind of cat
fish buries itself in the mud when the
river goes dry and lives till the freshets
washes it Out agin. Some of our poli
ticians seems to come out of tbe mud
when lection -freshets come along, and
they're mighty- good f eedln - fer fellers
that likes to do business with 'em.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
' " " '" 't 1 '-. . . - i
SMALL CHANGE
Don't wonnr aboat Tlhe flu. and
it
won i worry you.
The newspapers are telling of the "Red
Offensive." We'll say he ls
Thirty-six Ores on bova won the hleh.
est honors Of war and thousands of
others tried as hard as they could to
win them.
London is reported to be ready to
fleece the -Yankee tourist. But if he's
a Tegular Tank, the chances are he won't
be fleeced, and if he isn't, he needn't go
as far as London for a "trimming."
. . .
Representative Sabath of Illinois is In
favor of lifting tbe liquor ban for the
benefit of "flu" sufferers, but person
ally we'd rather da without the "flu"
at that. And will you notice the name
of the man who offers the suggestion?
r Lady Astor has been fined for break
ing the London traffic law by block
ading the street while she did a lUtle
Christmas shopping. Kvidently, those
London "bobbies" are no gentlemen or
they wouldn't arrest a lady for exer
cising the prerogatives of her sex.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Rahdom Observations About Town
Charles F. McKnight of Marshfield.
one of the leading attorneys of Oregon,
is a Portland visitor. A cafe before the
Oregon supreme court, a gathering of
the Shriners in Portland, are among
the things that brought him out from
Coos Bay for a brief sojourn. Mr. Mc
Knight Is chief counsel for the 15-year-old
Howell boy, who 'has been twice
tried at Coqullle for the alleged murder
of Lillian Leuthold. A third trial of
the boy is to -begin early next month,
the two former trials having resulted
In hung juries. In the coming trial the
defense will again be. in the hands of
Mr. McKnight. who is one of the best
known and most successful criminal
lawyers in the Western Oregon country.
Coos Bay industries were all war in
dustries during the late conflict, and
the entire resources of that country
were devoted to the winning of the
struggle. The transformation to a peace j
vaoio .mo wivcu tJiue wilii mpmiiy ana
nearly aU the mills In the county are
again In full blast. Including the fa
mous C. A. Smith sawmill, according to
Mr. McKnight.
There are so many splendid and in
teresting things to be said about Mrs.
Ada B. Milllcan that the task must be
shirked in less than a volume. Draw
straight lines through th, map of Ore
gon, north to south, east to west, -from
central points on the four boundaries.
The spot where the lines intersect is
Millican, "the heart of Oregon," created
by Mrs. Millican and her late husband,
first white settler in the great Central
Oregon domain. Mrs. Millican, until
now a resident of Prineville, Is at the
Imperial, en route to Eugene to spend
at least the winter. She may study at
the university, for, as she says, "That
old yarn about one being never too old
to learn is still effective." Mrs. Milli
can has not only been learning, but
teaching for many years, with the latter
effort largely confined to teaching Ore
gon Indians the ways of the white man.
Mrs. Millican's late, husband biased the
famous trail through McKenzle pass
from the Willamette valley.
m
"Thank me for the ratification of the
national woman suffrage amendment by
the Oregon state senate," says Senator
George T. Baldwin of Klamath Falls,
who represented most of Southern and
Central Oregon at the recent emergency
session. "My. name is first on the sen
ate roll call, and I voted 'yes.' The
others merely followed my lead." The
senator is in Portland driving a nail
Into his political fences here and there,
while he blames his presence to the fact
that he is attending the convention of
hardware men. Since he has been at
tending the hardware men's meetings
for 20 years the excuse passes easily.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Smalley of Waila
Walla knew Portland was a thriving
city, sure enough, but they hadn't an
idea they would find any difficulty in
getting shelter from the cool winds. But
Portland hotel registers look like the
rollcall of a bonanza stampede these
days, and that may be why Mr. Smalley
was thankful to get his name into place
on the Benson hotel register.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
A vtriety of matters, both useful and en
tprtainine. are broneht together by Mr. Lock
ley in hie article far the day. All wtU reliuli
the human interest itory with which tha eerie
b rounded out.
My nephew. Lieutenant Frederic Shep
ard. recently returned from. Siberia with
a Bolshevik bullet through his lung. We
took lunch together a few days ago. He
showed me a Russian 20-ruble bill of
the Kerensky regime. Before the war
a 20-ruble note was worth $10 In our
money. Today for your $10 gold piece
you can buy 3850 rubles. The price of
rubles has declined frotn 50 cents to ap
proximately one-third of a cent. Every
one who has access to a printing press
is printing paper money, so that it will
eoon be worth only its value as old
paper.
In these days of pyramiding prices,
when It takes a dollar bill to do the
work a silver half dollar used to do.
and when our money seems to have
wings, we are reminded of the "flying
money" of China. This "flying money"
was issued In 2697 B. C. by ChlneBe
banks, which were under government in
spection and control. The banknote
paper was made from tne riDer or me
mulberry tree and was of smooth and
silky texture. The notes were printed
in blue ink. In the Asiatic museum at
Petrograd you may see one of these
"mulberry" notes, or "covenant notes,
as the flying money was termed, which
was printed In 1339 B. C. Europe did
not follow China's example till 1401,
when banknotes wre printed at Bar
celona,, Spain. ?
'Pi you know wno made the fortune
of fr. Gillette and every other inventor
or dealer in safety razors, to say
nothing of innumerable thousands of
barbers? It was Philip of Macedon. He
is the patron saint of barbers and the
benefactor of every aeaier in wuei
razors. When Philip's warriors went to
battle be discovered that when they en
gaged the enemy (and in those days you
didn't get killed by a German artillery
man 10 or 15 miles away) the opposing
warriors had the habit of grabbing
the silky and flowing beards ot nis
Macedonian warriors in their left hands,
and with their right hands plunging a
dagger or short sword up to the hilt
in their solar plexus. Philip decided on
a heroic 'remedy, and the next time his
warriors charged the enemy they put
them to rout, for Philip had given orders
that every soldier must go into battle
"barefaced and unafraid." When their
foes reached to get a stranglehold on
the chin whiskers of the Macedonians It
was the demoralized foeman .that felt
tha dagger entering his vitals. And so
to this7 day we go clean shaven,' so that
If -we get Into a i fight our adversary
caa't grab us by our chin wtuakwa. :
SIDELIGHTS
Pendleton's fire committee of the city
council declares in a recent report that
a new and up to date fire truck must
be had. The present machine was bought
in 1913, and is now beyond repair, it
was 'reported. '
"Class ad" in the editorial columns
of the Pendleton East Oregonian:
"Wanted Soon, a SoOOO man to take an
$1800 Job as county Judge: must be good
roads man and understand how -to spend
lots of money and yet keep flown ex
penses." "Opinions as to damage done by the
frffet vary," says the Eugene Register,
"but what really happened cannot be
determined until after blossoming time.
Oregon fruit has a consistent habit of
upsetting predictions of damage to the
crop." i
Almost half the population of
Salen.. the Statesman says, are regis
tered as borrowers from the Salem pub
lic library, according, to the librarian's
ami .ai report. There are 8878 residents
of Salem on the registration list. The
reading rooms are so crowded that
standing roont is sometimes the beit that
sonw of the patrons can do.
'Haxling frefght by i uto truck
through the snowdrifts that cluttered
up the landscape around Burns this
winter is not my favorite outdoor sport,
but it's one way to bring home the
bacon." Such is the testimony of R. A.
Allen of Burns, who is at the Seward
hotel with Mrs. Allen for a few days.
Allen operates, a string of modern pony
expresses from Burns.
David N. Nelson, who thus far has
allowed no one In Umatilla county to
step by him when It comes to up-to-the
minute fixln's on his ranch, is a guest
at the Hotel Portland, with wheat crops
on his wonderfully Improved ranch in
the background for he present.
"Ole" Fuller, who parades at the New
Perkins hotel Just now under his Der-
fectly proper Initials, "W. V.," comes
to Portland so often that his friends
think he
lives here. Moat of Fuller's
business, however, is In Dallas, where
he Is president or past president of al
most everything that goes on In Polk
county, from the county fair to the
corner drug store corporation. "Ole"
comes by his alias honestly, for he Is
held to be one of the stellar Swedish
monologists in all Oregon.
,
Tillamook streets have been denied the
presence of 8. 8. Johnson, attorney in
"dalryland," for some time. Meanwhile
Johnson is at the Seward when he isn't
otherwise occupied about town.
Jack Porter, whose kindly counsel has
put hope Into many a youthful breast,
U at tho Imperial from Corvallis. Por
ter Is with the Benton County National
bank in the college town, and there gets
ample opportunity to display a big
hearted vein that has made him known
to everyone In town.
"S-h-h! You know Jay Upton of
Prineville? Jay's going to be a candi
date for a huge job at the next legisla
tive session, and at many thereafter If
his friends will it, said friends declare.
Upton Is trimming his flying feathers
for a dash at the job of being state sen
ator from Crook, DesehuteS, Jefferson,
Klamath and Lake counties, the largest
hunk of senatorial territory In Oregon
and one of the largest in the United
States with a lone senate clarion. Up
ton isn't here to defend himself, but his
friends are spreading his propaganda
wilfully.
Reversing the" usual order for a day
or so, Mrs. C. H. Castner and husband
are In Portland, the former to attend the
luncheon of the State. Federation of
Women's Clubs and the latter to be on
hand when wanted. Mrs. Castner, for
mer president of the federation, is very
active in its affairs. Mr. Castner has
a frutt rapch In Hood River valley. They
are at the Portland.
Mrs. Ida B. Callahan, before whose
throne more than a few "rooks" at the
portal of the Oregon Agricultural col
lege flrht learned the collegiate opinion
of their English, is in the city to preside
at the luncheon of the State Federation
of Women's Clubs, of which she Is presi
dent. For years Mrs. Callahan taught
Englisn at O. A. C.
For centuries barbers and surgeons
were at swords' points, for regular sur
geon') were by law pohibited from
"barbery or shaving," while the barbers
were allowed to ply the lancet and to
pull teeth, and from the old days of
blood letting by barbers to .the present
day they still display the barber's pole
with its red stripes to signify "Blood Let
Here." The white stripes on The pole
signify the bandages used to staunch the'
flow of blood.
We often think of the pestoffice as a
modern Institution, y et in the sixth verse
ot the thlhleth chapter of Second
Chronicles we are told, "The posts went
with the letters from the king and his
princes throughout all Israel." The Ro
mans borrowed the methods of the
Persian system and greatly im
proved upon them. The English postal
system was inaugurated just prior
to the discovery of America by
Columbus. James I established postal
eervlce to foreign countries, and his sutv
cessor, Charles I, in 1635 established an
Inland postal system, postboys plying
between London and Edinburgh and
making the round trip In six days.
Did you ever stop to wonder why the
conductor on the train you are travel
ing on is In charge of the train. Instead
of the engineer? Originally the en
gineer was the boss, but because, away
back in 1842, Ebenezer Ayres was a
better scrapper than Abe Hammll, con
ductors ever since have had charge of
trains. ' In 1842, when the engineer's
title was "master of the train." Captain
Ebeneser Ayres was conductor on the
New York tt Erie railroad. In those
days the train was "half and half." con
sisting of passenger and freight cars In
about equal portions.. There was no way
for the conductor to let the engineer
know when to start or stop. Captain
Ayres rigged up a stout twine .string to
run from the brake on the rear car to
the engine. He fastened a stick on the
end of the twine, which w6uld be raised
when he pulled the string. Captain
Ayres told the XJerman engineer. Abe
Hammll, that when he pulled the string
he wanted the train stopped. Abe cut
the string and told Ayres that he was
in charge of the train and would run
it to suit himself. Captain Ayres tied
the string together and said, "Abe. If
that string is cut again yon will have
to lick me; or I will lick you." A.be cut
the string. and in the ensuing fight was
soundly thrashed by the conductor. The
management of alt Erie trains was
transferred from the engineers to the
conductors and tbe stick and string be
came the belt rope.. Captain Ayres
stayed with the Erie until 1880, when he
waa retired.
The Oregon Country
Northwest Bappeninte la Brief Form (or the
Baay Header.
OREGON
1 More than $250,000 of the $550,000 road
bond issue of Douglas county la unex
pended.
A local women's auxiliary of the
American Legion is being organised in
Hood River.
The annual convention of the Chris
tian and Miaatonary alliance will open
at Hood River February 1.
County officials estimate that there t
are lbOQ dogs in Jackson county. So
far only 800 owners have taken out a;'
state license.
L. A. Whereat, superintendent of th
Beaver Hill coal mine, In Coos county,
has been transferred to th San Kran-
clseo oftice of the Southern Pacific.
Each student in the state university
has now 99 square feet of floor space
In the buildings on the campus, as coin
pared with 175 in 1907 and 1S6 in 1910.
Newton A. Ulocvtt. resident of Oregun
for the past 60 years, died at his home
In Albany, Hed 86 years. He had re
sided In the VVllluniclte valley for the
past 40 years.
That the damage to Marion county
fruit growers will he light is Indicated
in a report made by I'rofessor Brown
of the O. A. ho has juot completed
at) inspection of local orchards.
Construction work at the steam power
plant of the Bend Water c l.Uvht com
pany l proBTfssHlna; rapidly and .the)
plant may be ready for power produc
tion by March 31. The cost of the plant '
will be in exreK8 of $100.00H.
George M. Sunday. In charge of ttie
8 lace owned by hi father, the Rev. Billy i
unday. has 300 White Leghorn pulleln. j;
He says he says be will clear 8720 from
liis chickens In the three months end
ing January 31. The net earnings from
the pullets last month were $200.
There is no foundation for the report
that hundreds of sheep and cattle were i
drowned by the unprecedented, flood tn
the Malheur river. The loss Is compar
atively nothing, less than 50 head of
sheep and only a few, cattle.
The Hood River Anti-Asiatic aesocia- ,
tion has telegraphed Senators Chamber
lain and McNary to support the Phelan
resolution calling for a constitutional ,
amendment denying cltlienship to all
Japanese born In tho United States or its
dependencies.
That the Douglas County Light
Water company is already receiving
ample remuneration for service, asserted
C. B. Cannon before the Roseburg. city
council In the discussion of an appeal
filed by the company witn tne puono
service commission asking for increased ,
rates.
The Dallas Commercial club has- at
last secured the location of a cannery
at Dallas. Many acres of berries of all
kinds will be set out in the vlctnHy and.
a campaign will bo carried on by the
club to interest farmers and fruit grow
ers In cultivating crops that can be
handled by the cannery.
IDAHO
State Law Enforcement Officer Jones t
has been restrained by the district court
from revoking the licenses now held by
seven dentists.
E. C. MaiiBon has been made superin
tendent of the Idaho division of the Ore
gon Short Line to Bucceed A. B. Steven- ;
son, deceased.
State road development Is In grave
danger if federal aid is not continued,
asserts State Commissioner of Public
Works Hall and Director of Highways
Olson.
The Boise Chamber of Commerce has
found that fully 20 per cent of its cttl
sens have been missed by the census
enumerators, either through being out of
town, out of the house or for some other
reason. Boise expects to be put in the
30.000 class.
In the face of protests from several
school districts where teachers believed
to be the only ones available were dis
qualified by failure to pass the examina
tions, the state department of education
stands firm on its ground that public ,,
money can not be paid to unlioensed.
teachers. -
WASHINGTON
Mrs. R. C. McCredle of Hunpynide has
been elected president of the slate board
of health.
Cenlralia's quota to the Jewish relief
fund was $1600. A total of $1812 has
already been subscribed.
Washington's honey prod ii'-t ion totalled
$500,000 in value during 19 1. It la ex
pected to treble this figure Uls year.
American Legion members In Clarlie
county will Invent nearly $100,000 this
years In two buildings for halls and
gymnasiums.
Taxes collected In Lewis county this t
year will exceed those of last year by
$150,000. The Increase is due altogether -to
higher levies.
Ten alleged .members of the union of
Russian workers have been arrested at
Seattle on federal warrants and bound
over for trial.
The Wenaha Wool Growers' associa
tion charges that shearers at e in a pow
erful union ; are careless lh their work,
and that their wages are too high.
The Vancouver Chamber of Commerce
has appointed a committee of six mem
bers to pass upon all advertising schemes .
except In newspapers and magazines.
Plans for calling a special election at
Spokane to vote upon a tax levy for the
erection of a memorial auditorium in
honor of eervlce men are being dis
cussed. Mrs. Emily Hoyle has been found
guilty by a Spokane Jury on the charge
of kidnaping her own grandchild. The
baby was the child of Jier unmarried
daughter.
One painstaking census enumerator at
Yakima determined to enlist eryone in
his district hunted up Otto Wtffentr, the
city's leper patient, and secured the
necessary data
A T acorn a newV dealer and bookseller
has been found guilty by a Jury in the
federal court on two counts of an In
dictment charging him with selling- se- -dlttous
literature.
A Japanese picture bride will be given
a hearing at Spokane at which Immlgrn
tion officers will decide whether she wlli
have to return to Japan because she left
her picture husband. She said his fin
ancial condition was not what he had V
represented to her parents. r ;
Articles of Incorporation of the Med
ford Oas 4V Oil company, with a capital
stock of $500,000. have beea filed at
Vancouver. Tha company - proposes to "
drill for oil In the vicinity of Med
ford. Washington Incorporation laws
are not so strict as those of Oregon.
Curious Cits of Information
For the Curious ,
Gleaned From Curious Places
Dr. Jacques Faltlovltch of the Uni
versity of Geneva relates the story of
the Falashas, the black Jews ot Abys-"a
sinla. a people who were lost to the
world foa more than 2600 years In the
Interior reaches of the dark continent
The coming to Abyssinia of the
Falashas dates beyond th tradition of
the people of the Negus, and, the'
Falashas themselves are without authen
tic retfords of their migration. They
did pot know, at least until a few years
ago, that they were descendants of the
people of Israel. ' Their half forgotten
folk legends are based on the wander
ings, hundreds of years ago, of their
ancestors from a country: far to the
north. They believed they were all that
remained of a great nation from which
they were separated, and tn this belief
they continued their religious worship
and customs. , .
Dr. FaiUovitch telfs of the strong ad
herence of the Falashas to the religious
rites of the- Jews and their teachings tn
Palestine, even though they no longer i
speak Hebrew, jrheu severely Semitic fy
ccst f countenance forms a queer com-
binatlon - with -their complexion, which-
was - burned nearly as black as the :
native of Africa at a- result of their " !
Wanderings. ' tr, Faltlovltch is confident
these dark skinned people were Jews, v